Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on the final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his rival , Gary Baker , was struggling back from two punctures . |
| 2 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 3 | Dating of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands has shown that each of the main islands was formed in about 1 Ma . |
| 4 | Nastase had sublime skills but was careering around without much discipline and direction … a powderkeg temperament … an adorable , off-the-wall rogue . |
| 5 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 6 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 7 | Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage . |
| 8 | He was propped up on one elbow , his dark hair sweat-curled , his eyes gleaming with desire , his naked chest and arms magnificent in their absolute masculinity . |
| 9 | He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him . |
| 10 | The parcels carrying service proved unsatisfactory and was given up on 31 December 1911 . |
| 11 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 12 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 13 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 14 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 15 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 16 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
| 18 | I was hanging about with older people at that time . |
| 19 | At the Port Lilla was placed back on narrow gauge track for the journey up to the Quarry . |
| 20 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 21 | In the first experiment nasal mucus from the patient , with coryza , was shaken up with five times its volume of normal salt solution , and the mixture was centrifuged . |
| 22 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 23 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 24 | Her heart was crashing around like Big Ben about to strike . |
| 25 | Brigadier Veale was flown out on 23 May and Major A. Spence took command of Lancer Force , Bernard Callinan being promoted major in command of 2/2 . |
| 26 | He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne . |
| 27 | A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis . |
| 28 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 29 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 30 | This suggestion is supported by the fact that the Ψ40-synthesis in mutant a207 was delayed by about 24 hours ( Fig. 2C ) , a time required for almost complete modification of G26 to m 2 2G26 . |